Needless to say, it's not in Berlin, and even what's seen onscreen is waaaaay too modern for something that's supposed to exist in 1929 (even moreso as a derelict site in 1929). The structures seen haven't even been built until the 1960s!

I'm currently in the process of watching season 2 of Babylon Berlin, and there's a recurring setting of a "derelict industrial site" or whatever it's supposed to be on the show, and I easily recognize it as a place only a few minutes from where I live (it's actually a former ironworks site that's been turned into a public park).

Question for those of you living in exotic locations such as the US or the UK: If you watch a movie or a TV show that features a real-life location as a stand-in for someplace else, and you recognize the real-life location due to having been there in person, does that pull you out of the story?

Nothing like coming home after a long day to find a bird in the house. And then once you sit down for a well-earned rest after leading the bird back outside, you find it had a friend. A friend who *really* doesn't understand how windows work...

I doubt that the show that just finished is the direct cause considering the time taken for the stages of toy development. All of which would need to be finalized before they shoot anything so that the props would match what's getting sold.

Even sales data from the middle of the year might be too recent to have an already apparent effect.

I'm guessing that there was an overall re-positioning of the brand based on sales not only from LuPat but from previous series. In terms of concept, Sentai has done;

Trains that change colours, Family of Ninjas (a more normal concept for the series), Animals from another world (ditto), Large team with an equal measure of non-human (most of the time) rangers IN SPACE, and the Team vs Team dynamic.

Overall, there's been a mix of overall normal Sentai concepts and less traditional bits, and whilst ratings for NinNinger were macabre, the rest of the series has experienced a more steady... decline (sadly).

With the toys we've had; Trains, A Random Mishmash of Objects somehow related to the transformation device, Cubes that are sort of Minecraft-ey, Orb star things? and the Interchangeable transformation device/vehicles. All five are so far apart that it felt like they were trying to catch lightning in a bottle from Ranger Keys or ZyuDenchi again without making something too similar and it didn't work out. Both Kamen Rider and PreCure have long settled on the "Main Toy+Sound Attachments" model, but Sentai seemingly wanted to step away from that.

In this case, they've probably relented and we'll see more of the same for quite a while.

The third series in TakaraTomy's X x Senshi series has been revealed as Himitsu x Senshi Phantom Mirage? They are basically the pre-teen girls of Lupinranger. Maybe Lupinranger's toys were successful, but Patrangers bombed. We won't know until Sentai maybe makes a new Phantom Thieves season.

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<fourteenwings> Naas: The main villain of Super Sentai Saikyou Battle!! is called Ultimate Dai Satan which I feel like was the name of another Sentai villain
<Naas> yeah
<Naas> Zyuranger

<fourteenwings> It's really weird because somehow there are five heroes on the main team and none are from dinosaur themed seasons

<Naas> according to Power Rangers Wikia, it /is/ the Zyuranger one
<fourteenwings> That is even weirder since not even one Zyuranger has shown up out of Sentai form
<fourteenwings> Naas: wait so
<fourteenwings> The villain girl being named Rita
<fourteenwings> is really a Power Rangers joke?

<Naas> that makes sense on some level

<fourteenwings> Also ToQ 5 beat DekaMaster which feels like something people will be mad about forever and ever
<fourteenwings> So I'm glad